The growth of the railway around Heanor
Map and Time-line
| Growth | |
| 1832 | Famous meeting at the Sun Inn, Eastwood, the “birth” of the Midland Railway |
| 1836 | Parliamentary approval for Midland Counties line, connecting Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. Plans for line along Erewash Valley dropped |
| 1839 | Line from Derby to Nottingham opened |
| 1840 | Line from Trent to Leicester opened |
| 1844 | Merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Railway, to form the Midland Railway Company |
| 1847 | Midland Railway line from Trent to Codnor Park opened, including stations at “Langley Mill for Heanor” and Shipley Gate |
| 1849 | Line extended to Pinxton |
| 1861 | Erewash Valley line extended from Codnor Park to Clay Cross – now becomes a main line from north to south |
| 1875 | Great Northern open branch line from Awsworth to Pinxton, with stations at Newthorpe and “Eastwood & Langley Mill” |
| 1890 | Midland Railway open branch line from Ripley to Heanor (Midland Road), with station at “Crosshill & Codnor” |
| 1891 | Great Northern open line from Ilkeston to Heanor (Heanor Gate), with station also at Marlpool |
| 1895 | Midland Railway’s Ripley to Heanor line extended to Langley Mill station |
| Decline | |
| 1926 | Midland Railway passenger service between Langley Mill and Ripley ceased |
| 1928 | Great Northern close Marlpool station, and run only one unadvertised train each way per day between Heanor and Ilkeston |
| 1929 | Track between Ripley and Heanor removed. Track from Heanor to main line at Milnhay remains for goods traffic |
| 1939 | Heanor Great Northern station closed |
| 1948 | Shipley Gate Station closed |
| 1951 | Heanor Goods Station (Midland Road) closed |
| 1963 | Great Northern Pinxton branch, including Eastwood & Langley Mill closed to passenger traffic |
| 1967 | Langley Mill Station closed |
| 1986 | Langley Mill Station re- |
See the separate page on the Great Northern at Eastwood and Langley Mill Station for a gallery of photos taken shortly after the station closed in 1963.
